If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their... town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Alas! when Virtue sits high aloft on a frigate's poop, when Virtue is crowned in the cabin of a Commodore, when Virtue rules by co...mpulsion, and domineers over Vice as a slave, then Virtue, though her mandates be outwardly observed, bears little interior sway.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Like all high functionaries, he deemed it indispensable religiously to sustain his dignity; one of the most troublesome things in ...the world, and one calling for the greatest self-denial.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »